Portland Art Museum’s ‘Waterlilies’ restoration gives the beloved Monet painting ‘back its voice’
That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...
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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?
The constructed water lily pond on Monet’s Giverny property was an object of his fascination, and he painted it en plein air over 250 times across four decades. The composition owned by PAM ...
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How To Grow And Care For Water Lilies
Monet loved these summer flowers, and you will too. Water lilies, plants in the genus Nymphaea, are aquatic blooms that grow in ponds and water gardens. Their green lily pads spread out across the ...
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Late "Lilies" extends MFA's view of Monet
The Museum of Fine Arts has brought Claude Monet's "Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows" (c. 1916-1919) to Boston for the first time. Why it matters: This will be the most recent Monet on ...
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Portland Art Museum Exhibits Restored Monet Alongside the Japanese Artists Who Inspired Him
Amid a collection of French and Japanese art lies the exhibition’s centerpiece: an unnamed painting from among roughly 250 entries in Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series which has never been ...
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Inside Monet’s garden in Giverny and how to visit this year
Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those depicting colourful water-lilies and the Japanese bridge – the Monet ...